Réalisé pour l'exposition inaugurale Méditerrannées, Marseille, Capitale culturelle de l'Europe Le réalisateur Malek Bensmaïl a imaginé un Ulysse d’aujourd’hui, un Ulysse « brûleur de frontières », parti à la rencontre de ses contemporains. Cet homme « de nulle part, partout chez lui » est à l’écoute de ceux qu’il rencontre lorsqu’il accoste dans un des ports de Méditerranées. Lui sont confiés les espoirs, les angoisses d’une Méditerranée qui se ré-invente. Dialogue des cultures ou choc des civilisations ? Naissance de démocraties ou lendemains inquiétants ? Cohabitations harmonieuses ou haine de l’autre ?

Documentary series in two parts: 1. A people without a voice (80'), 2. A land in mourning (78'). Part 1: A people without a voice: October 88, the Algerian Republic is faltering, the film goes back to the sources of this tragedy and explains how the face to face between the Islamists and those in power began. The interruption of the legislative elections of December 91, followed shortly after the assassination of President Boudiaf in June 92, plunged Algeria into chaos. Part 2: A land in mourning: the cycle of violence that leads to massacres and the economic and geopolitical underside of the war. More than 100,000 deaths, an incredible degree of barbarity, massacres, apparently incomprehensible... Behind the official window of power and its artificial political scene, hides a shadow power.

Haroun is an old bachelor who has lived in Oran for several years. A retired civil servant, he leads a reclusive life until the day he meets Kamel in a bar—a journalist to whom he tells an incredible story dating back to 1942. He claims to be the brother of ‘the Arab’ killed in a story told in one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus. An Arab with an erased name: Moussa. Through anger, assertions, details, and confidences, Haroun finally convinces the journalist to listen to his story. His confession is a cry of freedom and distress—but above all, a cry of revolt: against an abusive mother, against a country that failed to achieve true independence, against a book, and against a famous French writer.

Accommodated since Algeria's Bloody Decade of the 1990s in the 'House of the Press', the journalists of the famous daily newspaper El Watan await the completion of their new offices, a symbol of their independence. My camera is embedded in their newsroom as they follow the events of this new Algerian spring... President Bouteflika has set his sights on a 4th term. Beyond what we call the Arab revolutions and other mediatized terms, I wanted this film to serve as a memorial to the women and men, young and less young, who battle daily to safeguard the freedom of information in a politically and socially fossilized country. 這部紀錄片的導演馬列克‧班斯麥爾（Malek Bensmaïl）深入《祖國報》的編輯室內部，難得地記錄下報社的日常工作狀況，這是以往以新聞媒體為主題的紀錄片很少捕捉到的畫面。從中我們看到了記者、編輯、主管等多方之間的不斷討論和辯論，從政治立場、意識形態、用詞遣字、報導方式、下標、圖片⋯⋯皆可爭論，展現出一個充滿活力和使命熱誠的新聞媒體的內部運作動態。